accessing hoc from python

[stil]

I have this 'bug' when using python : If ido

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from scipy import *

, and then

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h.load_file(whatever.hoc)

, the variables written in the hoc file like

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x = 0.001

will be seen as 0.
If i change for

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x = 1e-3

, or if i import

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import scipy as sc

, and adapt the code accordingly, the hoc variables are not ceiled.

regards

[ted]

Have you read the Programmer's Reference material on Python_accessing_hoc ?
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/stati ... essing_Hoc

[stil]

thanks for the link ted, i just realize that there is a dedicated section in the programmers' reference.

I used documentations in http://www.davison.webfactional.com/not ... oc-python/, somehow kept using a regular hoc file for all the model description, and used python for all the surrounding tasks (simulation control, plotting)...

What i mentionned can be easily worked-around, but i was wondering the reason for this behavior. Do you suggest to write 'everything' in the same language, to make a choice between hoc and python ... ?

thanks again, anyway.

[ted]

I used documentations in http://www.davison.webfactional.com/not ... oc-python/, somehow kept using a regular hoc file for all the model description, and used python for all the surrounding tasks (simulation control, plotting)...

That's fine. Just remember that a variable whose name in hoc is x will be called h.x in Python.

Do you suggest to write 'everything' in the same language, to make a choice between hoc and python

Not at all. Just pointing out that, if you want to use Python to refer to a variable that was created by a hoc statement, there is a way to do that. For example, if there is a hoc statement like
x = 0.001
then in Python
h.x
will have the value 0.001, but there may or may not be a Python variable called x, and even if there is one, it won't have anything to do with the hoc variable called x.